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Selenium
Episode #116Jun 30, 200864 comments

Selenium

Selenium is a great way to test your app automatically through a browser. See how it works in this episode. (9 minutes)
OpenID Authentication
Episode #68Aug 27, 200775 comments

OpenID Authentication

Ever wonder how to implement OpenID authentication in your Rails app? This episode will show you how to add it to a site with an existing authentication system. (11 minutes)
PayPal Security
Episode #143Jan 05, 200972 comments

PayPal Security

This episode shows how to encrypt the variables passed to PayPal and verify the authenticity of the payment notifications (IPN). (11 minutes)
Rack Middleware
Episode #151Mar 02, 200966 comments

Rack Middleware

Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware. (12 minutes)
Gem Dependencies
Episode #110May 23, 200834 comments

Gem Dependencies

In Rails 2.1 we now have the ability to set gem dependencies. Now it's easier than ever to specify which ruby gems our rails app relies on. (6 minutes)
Capistrano Tasks
Episode #133Oct 27, 200840 comments

Capistrano Tasks

Do you know how to make Capistrano tasks? See how to change default deployment behavior with custom tasks in this episode. (8 minutes)
Monitoring with God
Episode #130Oct 05, 200849 comments

Monitoring with God

Need to ensure your background processes stay up and running and don't use too many resources? Check out the god gem as shown in this episode. (14 minutes)
Debugging with ruby-debug
Episode #54Jul 06, 200751 comments

Debugging with ruby-debug

This episode will show you how to debug a rails app using ruby-debug: set a breakpoint, inspect variables, change the code and more. (8 minutes)
More on ActiveResource
Episode #95Mar 02, 200855 comments

More on ActiveResource

See how to handle authentication and custom actions using ActiveResource in this episode. (8 minutes)
YAML Configuration File
Episode #85Dec 23, 200750 comments

YAML Configuration File

Application configuration shouldn't be spread throughout your code base. Instead a much better place to put it is an external YAML file. See how to do that in this episode. (7 minutes)